First Quattro review, by Cadaver Garden

In just two tracks, Last Minute To Jaffna create an atmospheric world and have that world unfold before your very eyes. The atmosphere runs thick throughout this record and is very hard to escape from as it envelopes and shrouds you nearly immediately. The atmosphere isn’t the only stand out thing their newest release titled Quattro though as these sludge merchants provide you with thick and completely buzzing and fuzzed out tunes for you to escape to and lose yourself in. As atmospheric and groove filled as this release is, it is just as heavy and head banging.

Through and through, you are presented with murky rolling riffs that get your head nodding in a heart beat, progressive drumming and dissonant vocal chord straining vocals that peer through the sonic wall of atmospheric sludge. Throughout Quattro, you are greeted with passages that are hard rocking and head banging, and the next moment you are being thrown in to slower, more methodical and atmospheric passages. Last Minute To Jaffna does a great job of mixing and matching tempos and changing them frequently to keep you guessing and keep you listening for what may lie ahead.

Quattro is an easy EP to get in to and sit and listen to numerous times. Even though both tracks sport lengthier run times, it never really feels as though you are sitting for twenty minutes going through these tracks. Each track is well crafted and performed seamlessly to create a cohesive and intriguing listen that you want to keep listening to. On top of that, Last Minute To Jaffna have created songs that sweep you away to their vast soundscapes and broad all encompassing atmospheres that ultimately captivate you and keep you listening for quite some time.

Once you press play, the murky sludge pours through your speakers and in to your ears working their way in to your scarred brain making a nice home for themselves. Quattro is memorable and easy to listen to numerous times without tiring of it quickly. Each element that Last Minute To Jaffna has sewn in to this EP works seamlessly with one another gifting you with a complete and cohesive listen. This EP is at times serene and hypnotic, and at other times harsh and hard rocking providing you with plenty of variety within only two tracks. Overall, Quattro doesn’t break any mold, or shatter entirely new ground, but it is a great release nonetheless as it provides you with two really solid tracks that you can sink your teeth in to.

They say about us: "Their huge sludge, enriched with a lot of doom metal, was like a pillared hall of pitch-black rows of monoliths, layered endlessly and collapsing row after row. Two guitarists shared the frontman duties with growls and deep melodies, and the bassist performed a devilish dance across the entire stage - until the band sank back into their drones."

Another run is over. We'd like to deeply thank our buds KER for the good time and for helping our merch thru the Swiss border, Omar Fra for letting us play at Düsterfest, and Rene & all the KuZeB Bremgarten crew for their usual hospitality.

Last but not least, thanks to all the people who showed up at BLAH BLAH, we couldn't finish this run in a better way!

Ilaria Dambrosio on Rock Hard Italy: " The sensations carried by these two tracks, both close to being ten minutes long, are multiple and in particular the wall of heaviness that features them finds wide moments of relent (...) To say everything and to say it with just the essential: the quartet from Turin has figured out how to do it"

"the ability to interact on the emotional level makes the listening of this record an immersive and fulfilling experience, linked to a genre that many have crystallized and reiterated, but - and here lies its greatest value - rich in new solutions and current ideas "